Possible Food Poisoning at Latham, NY, Comfort Inn
According to a story on Capital News 9, several people experienced gastrointestinal illness after eating a lasagna dinner at a Comfort Inn in Latham, New York, on Tuesday, August 15.
Health officials will test samples of the food eaten at the dinner and interview those sickened to determine if the source of the illness was something other than the food at the dinner. Genetic testing of some foodborne pathogens has made connecting victims of a foodborne outbreak with a source easier and more reliable.
If the source of the illness was the food eaten that night, the most likely foodborne pathogen responsible for the flu-like illness is norovirus. Health individuals usually recover quickly from a norovirus infection. For people with weakened immune systems, however, norovirus can result in serious illness.
